Together with Absolut, Caravan, a United Arab Emirate baset artist collective, presented an Absolut Art bar Installation at the 2014 ARt Dubai. The site-specific, large-scale art installation created by Caravan, named A Grain of Sand, was a unique bar and lounge on the Fort Island in the heart of the art fair.

Now that Art Basel in Hong Kong has ended its second edition, the next question is this: what happens next? Of course, this is not about what gallerist Rhona Hoffman noted during the fair’s public days, that: “the art fair continues for weeks afterwards.” Rather, this is about what happens to Hong Kong’s art scene now that Art Basel has cemented its place here.

Another night at Nadim Abbas’s Absolut Art Bar, “Apocalypse Postponed”: a cyberpunk bunker located on the 17th floor of the newly-opened Soundwill Plaza II–Midtown located in Causeway Bay, a notoriously dense and overpopulated section of Hong Kong.

For anyone who grew up outside of New York – and spent their youth idealizing its culture – likely spent a good amount of time idealizing the bars, restaurants and coffee shops where this culture was born. Places where artists and musicians met to seek refuge from the hardships of the glamorous, unforgiving city, forming the breeding ground for its enchanting cultural mythology.